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The Motley Fool
March 26, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Breaking Up With AIG One AIG executive's public resignation seems to ring a little hollow.   |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
AIG Bonus Outrage Is Bogus Don't buy the government's surprised anger at the AIG exec bonuses. |
Insurance & Technology
February 4, 2010 |
AIG Says Pay Issue Is 'Largely' Solved U.S. insurance giant American International Group Inc. said it would reduce bonus payments by $20 million to recoup part of a pledge it failed to keep. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 18, 2009
Orla O'Sullivan |
AIG Uproar Sees Spitzer Weigh In The real disgrace in what A.I.G. did with almost $200 billion in government bailouts was not the payment of executive bonuses, but payments to banks, Eliot Spitzer said in an interview Wednesday morning. |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
AIG Executives: Fat Cats or Valuable Management Worth Keeping? It can be argued that AIG CEO Edward Liddy actually had the right idea in paying retention packages to key managers. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan, Smith Barney Reps Get Retention Awards, NOT Bonuses Top producers at both firms stand to receive as much as 105 percent of trailing twelve month production to stay with the joint firm. |
Registered Rep.
March 18, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Congress Is Outraged--Again; Citi's New CEO?; Meredith Whitney Spews More Venom; and Madoff's Accountant's Life Just Got More Interesting The AIG CEO is testifying before the Inquisition -- er, Congress this morning. Liddy will be grilled about $165 million in bonuses his company doled out to executives. |
Insurance & Technology
August 4, 2009 |
In-Depth: Remaking AIG The latest development in the efforts to save one-time industry giant AIG is the appointment of former MetLife CEO Robert Benmosche as AIG's new chief executive. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010 |
Who's News People: David S. Lynn joins Morgan Stanley Smith Barney... UBS Private Wealth Management promotes Frank Minerva to COO... Philip Fett joins JPMorgan Chase... more... |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Losing Advisors, Client Assets But while Smith Barney is losing reps, it also appears to be recruiting heavily. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Morgan Ups Offer to Prospective Candidates Industry recruiters say the firm has in recent weeks increased the upfront cash offered to top producers, while adding larger bonuses based on the first two years of production. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Sterngold & Son |
AIG's Declaration of Independence The botched Prudential deal may not be another blow to the crippled, government-supported insurance giant as much as a sign of a tenacious new board motivated to save the company. So sit tight, taxpayers, getting your money back could take a while |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2012
Mason Braswell |
Solid Business Models Key to Success in Difficult Economy The second quarter has just wrapped up. It's after the closing bell on the first Wednesday of what many analysts believe will be a tempestuous round of earnings announcements. But Ron Kruszewski, the president and chief executive officer of Stifel Nicolaus, is bullishly calm. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 3, 2009
Jim Heskett |
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment? Few people argue that retention bonuses help preserve the value of organizations that are for sale, says the author. But as a more regular form of compensation are they worth the investment? |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Con Games Don't Build Trust In its bailout fervor, has the government lost sight of logic and abandoned the crucial concept of letting businesses reap what they sow? |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2009
Helen Kearney |
Back on the Front Lines Over the past few months, both UBS and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney have completed their transitions to the 'complex' management structure. Many of the branch managers affected haven't had a book of business for years and say it's not an easy thing to conjure up overnight. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Rebecca Christie |
TARP Didn't Bust the Bank The much-maligned bailout program made money on most Wall Street investments and cost less than expected. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Kristen French |
More or Less? Smith Barney overhauled its pay package -- just in time for the new year. Some of the changes it made were pretty radical -- especially for an industry in which any pay change, no matter how minor, is often a source of uproar. |
Registered Rep.
March 12, 2009 |
In the News: Madoff Pleads Guilty; AG Cuomo Says Merrill Mislead Him, UBS Retail Unit Stumbled in '08, Fund Manager Steve Leuthold Is (Still) Very Bullish Madoff faces up to 150 years in prison... Cuomo wants disclosure on bonuses... UBS releases 2008 annual report... "Buy `em when they hate'em," Leuthold says... |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Goldman Sachs to Employees: Pretend This Hurts Here's your bonus! Now please, oh please, don't spend it. |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2010
Kristen French |
Merrill Strengthens Golden Handcuffs For New Hires, Recruits Small Fry To receive all of his recruiting bonus money, a new hire must now stick around for 14 years, instead of nine, and all of the back-end money is now deferred, where a big portion used to be in cash. |
Registered Rep.
August 12, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Building a Better Separate-Account Mousetrap Separately managed accounts can be confusing, but the paperwork and operations behind them need not be -- or at least that's the thrust of a new effort by Smith Barney Consulting Group. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Is Obama Crying Wolf With This Stimulus Package? Something needs to be done. But perhaps focusing on time rather than quality is a dire mistake. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings David Harris moved to UBS Securities from Smith Barney... UBS Securities lost a broker to upstart wealth manager Mercury Wealth Management... Carol Rogers recently moved to Linsco/Private Ledger from Wachovia Securities' FINet system... etc. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers Top 10 Broker/Dealers, by Advisor Headcount: Merrill Lynch... Wachovia... Smith Barney... Morgan Stanley... etc. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2009
Alison Fitzgerald |
Americans Are Furious at Wall Street A new Bloomberg National Poll shows that Americans are angry at banks and brokers -- and furious about bonuses. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2009
Nick Kapur |
The Most Terrifying Part of the AIG Mess Shame the bankers at AIG who refuse to return money that is legally theirs, but not rightfully theirs. But I seriously advise our government not to attempt to redefine its own role, for I suspect we'll long regret it. |
Registered Rep.
September 2, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
SEC Says Careful With Your Recruiting Bonus The SEC sends a warning to broker/dealer executives about the recruiting bonuses they pay to advisors, saying they could encourage advisors to do things that are not in their clients' best interests. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2009
Kearney et al. |
The Power Players It's shaping up to be a challenging year for the wirehouse world. From Washington to Wall Street, see who we think will have the most influence on the industry as it battles through the down market. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007
John Churchill |
Sallie's Back At first glance, this second coming of Sallie Krawcheck probably looks like a cakewalk compared to her first adventure in 2002. But, make no mistake: Smith Barney is not the awesome brokerage it appears to be on paper. |
Registered Rep.
March 9, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Cutting 200-300 FAs And Trainees The firm's wealth management division, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, should end the quarter with about 17,800 advisors, still the largest brokerage force in the U.S. by headcount. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kevin Burke |
Reshuffling the Decks There is an unusual amount of reorganization afoot, with Merrill, Wachovia, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney all shaking up their retail brokerage operations. Some of the moves have direct implications for retail advisors. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bank of America Submits Its Bid for Dumbest Move of the Week Bank of America hires former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck to take over the bank's global wealth and investment management operations. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia's Banking Unit Has New Deal for Reps Wachovia Securities, which offers reps several different affiliation levels, has predictably come up with a recruiting deal that has several different plans reps can choose from. This particular deal is only for those reps applying to work in the bank branches. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2009
Morgan Housel |
AIG's Bonuses Are an Absolute Joke AIG's $450 million in bonuses is going to members of the financial products division that's almost solely responsible for Big A's demise. |
Registered Rep.
May 30, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
The New Smith Barney CEO Sallie Krawcheck was recruited to restore the credibility of Smith Barney and lead the business through its toughest slump in a generation. Krawcheck wants Smith Barney advisors to more than double their average annual production to $1 million. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009
Maria Bartiromo |
The Enduring Anger of Hank Greenberg A conversation with former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg. |
Registered Rep.
February 12, 2009 |
Round Up: The Post-Congressional Roasting Scuttlebutt Deems House Committee A Rather Pointless Public Flogging In the 18th century there might have been a public flogging or a stint in the town square's pillory, but would the pre-credit-crunch world have condemned Wall Street leaders and members of Congress to the gallows? |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America's Big, Fat, Gaping Hole Already widely expected to be short on capital, the hole blown in the side of B of A's balance sheet now appears bigger than many expected. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2011
Kristen French |
Broker Report Card 2011: It's Getting Better All the Time Registered Rep.'s 21st annual Broker Report Cards showed advisor satisfaction ratings creeping higher this year across the board -- on everything from compensation and benefits, compliance support and sales support to products. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 10, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Bonuses Still Point of Contention for Obama The President continues to push for restrictions on bonus compensation for financial executives. |
Registered Rep.
March 2, 2009
Kristen French |
News Roundup: Dow opens under 7,000... AIG, Citi Get new bailouts... Pandit profiled... Baker says US today equals Japan in 90s... |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2011
Housel & Moscovitz |
Bailouts: The Final Word We should be doing everything we can now to prevent the possibility of ever having to have another TARP program. |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2008 |
AIG Saved; Biz As Usual For Its B/Ds The government bailed out AIG from near failure with a two-year loan of $85 million in exchange for a nearly 80-percent stake in the company. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Rich Smith |
Quick! Everybody Out of the Pool! AIG is going public, and its stock is going down. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2009 |
Citi: What Sandy Built, Pandit Will Dismantle? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Citigroup has put Smith Barney up for sale -- or a joint venture. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Bank Bonuses Head Back to the Future If reports are correct, Bank of America could pay 2007-style bonuses to some employees of its Merrill unit. |
Registered Rep.
December 12, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Pay Package: Perks Balance Cuts? This week, Smith Barney will become the first firm to make a change to its payout grid as a result of the securities industry's recent battle over broker overtime pay and so-called chargebacks. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
John Churchill |
Good Times, Bad Times Shares of the major broker/dealers are getting hammered. The good news is, for those of you who have always wanted to move on, but couldn't because it made you sick to leave unvested options on the table, this may be your moment. |
